5:49 PM,
Feb. 25, 2014

Russell Moore

Written by

Heidi Hall
| hhall@tennessean.com

A Tennessee bill that would have protected florists, bakers, photographers and other wedding vendors who refuse service to same-sex couples got shelved last week, but the debate over it is raging on in Nashville.

First, on Sunday, Russell Moore, head of the Nashville-based Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, got into a blog kerfuffle with The Daily Beast over its writers labeling him a hypocrite, citing his stance on the issue. On Tuesday, the National Religious Broadcasters picked up the topic again at their annual convention at Gaylord Opryland, ...